X-FACTOR

1) Sign of the Cross
2) Lord of the Flies
3) Man on the Edge
4) Fortunes of war
5) Look for the truth
6) The Aftermath
7) Judgment of Heaven
8) Blood on the World's Hands
9) The Edge of Darkness
10) 2 A.M.
11 The Unbeliever


 


 

Sign Of The Cross
(Harris)

Eleven saintly shrouded men
Silhouettes stand against the sky

One in front with a cross held high

Come to wash my sins away

Standing alone in the wind and rain

Feeling the fear that is growing

Sensing the change in the tide again

Brought by the storm that is brewing

Feel the anxiety hold off the fear

Some of the doubt in the things you believe

Now that your faith will be put to the test

Nothing to do but await what is coming

Why then is God still protecting me

Even when I don't deserve it

Though I am blessed with an inner strength

Some they would call it a penance

Why am I meant to face this alone

Asking the question time and again

Praying to God won't keep me alive

Inside my head feel the fear start to rise

They'll be saying their prayers when the moment comes

There'll be penance to pay when it's judgement day

And the guilty'll bleed when that moment comes

They'll be coming to claim, take your soul away

CHORUS:
The sign of the cross
The name of the rose ... a fire in the sky
The sign of the cross

They'll be coming to bring the eternal flame
They'll be bringing us all immortality
Holding communion so the world be blessed
My creator, my God'll lay my soul to rest

CHORUS

Lost the love of heaven above
Chose the lust of the earth below
Eleven saintly shrouded men
Came to wash my sins away

 

Lord Of The Flies
(Harris/Gers)

I don't care for this world anymore
I just want to live my own fantasy

Fate has brought us to these shores

What was meant to be is now happening

I've found that I like this living in danger

Living on the edge it makes me feel as one

Who cares now what's right or wrong it's reality

Killing so we survive wherever we may roam

Wherever we may hide we've got to get away I

don't want existence to end

We must prepare ourselves for the elements

I just want to feel like we're strong

We don't need no code of morality

I like all the mixed emotion and anger It brings out the animal the power you can feel

And feeling so high on this much adrenaline

Excited but scary to believe what we've become Saints and sinners

Something within us

We are lord of the flies

Saints and sinners

Something willing us

To be lord of the flies

 

 

 

 

 

Man On The Edge
Bayley/Gers

 The freeway is jammed and it's backed up for miles
The car is an oven and baking is wild

Nothing is ever the way it should be

What we deserve we just don't get you see

A briefcase, a lunch and a man on the edge

Each step gets closer to losing his head

Is someone in heaven are they looking down

'Cause nothing is fair just you look around

Falling down
Falling down
Falling down

He's sick of waiting of lying like this
There's a hole in the sky for the angels to kiss
Branded a leper because you don't fit
In the land of the free you can live by your wits
Once he built missiles a nation's defence
Now he can't even give birthday presents
Across the city he leaves in his wake
A glimpse of the future a cannibal state

Falling down
Falling down
Falling down

 

Fortunes Of War
(Harris)

After the war and now that they've sent us homeward
I can't help but feel that I'm on my own

No one can see just what this conflict has done to

The minds of the men who are on their way home

I'm scarred for life but it's not my flesh that's wounded

So how can I face the torment alone

The vivid scenes and all the recurring nightmares

I lay there and sweat until it gets light ...

People say don't worry

Say that time's a perfect healer

That the nightmares they will come to pass

Can't hear what they're saying

I am living in my own world

And I'm feeling trance-like all the time

I hear voices in my head

Could I really be going crazy

In the night the visions seem so real

Do you care if you live or die

When you laugh are you really crying

You're not sure what's real anymore

Fortunes of war
Fortunes of war
Fortunes of war
no pain anymore
Fortunes of war
Fortunes of war
Fortunes of war
no pain anymore
Fortunes of war

Sometimes I wake I feel that my spirit's broken
I wonder if I've the strength ... carry on Carry on

 

Look For The Truth
(Bayley/Gers/Harris)

 All my dark dreams drift like smoke in the breeze
The fear grips me as I fall towards my sleep

Here comes the nightmare that never ends

Here is the dream that makes monsters of men

In the house of my soul
In rooms of ugliness and cold
Memories locked away
All the doubts and fears I never faced
Now they come again
I am falling down to meet with them
Fears within us all
Mine awake and they stand up tall

Look for the truth
Deepest cut of all from you
Knife of the truth
Blade of hatred slicing through

I pray my sleep will break
Maybe this time I won't wake
Weakness I hide so well
This dagger in my mind will tell
It's my final stand I make a fist out of each hand
To shadows of the past
Take a breath and I scream attack

Look for the truth
Deepest cut of all from you
Knife of the truth
Blade of hatred slicing through
Look for the truth

Deepest cut of all from you
Knife of the truth
Blade of hatred slicing through
 

 

The Aftermath
(Harris/Bayley/Gers)

 Silently to silence fall In the fields of futile war
Toys of death are spitting lead

Where boys that were our soldiers bled war horse and war machine

Curse the name of liberty

Marching on as if the should

Mix in the dirt our brothers' blood In the mud and rain

What are we fighting for Is it worth the pain Is it worth dying for

Who will take the blame

Why did the make a war

Questions that come again

Should we be fighting at all

Once a ploughman hitched his team

Here he sowed his little dream

Now bodies arms and legs are strewn

Where mustard gas and barbwire bloom

Each moment's like a year I've nothing left inside for tears

Comrades dead or dying lie I'm left alone asking why In the mud and rain

What are we fighting for Is it worth the pain Is it worth dying for

Who will take the blame

Why did the make a war

Questions that come again

Should we be fighting at all

After the war
Left feeling noone has one
After the war
What does a soldier become

Judgement Of Heaven
(Harris)

A lonely cry for help reaching out for help to anyone
A silent prayer to god to help you on your way

I've been depressed so long It's hard to remember when I was happy

I've felt like suicide a dozen times or more

But that's the easy way that's the selfish way

The hardest part is to get on with your life

You're searching in the dark clutching at straws to find a way

You take the tarot cards and throw them to the wind

You question your beliefs, your inner thoughts, your whole existence

And if there is a God then answer if you will

And tell me of my fate, tell me of my place

Tell me if I'll ever rest in peace If you could live your life again

Would you change a thin or leave it all the same If you had the chance again

Would you change a thing at all

When you look back at your past

Can you say that you are proud of what you've done

Are there times when you believe

That the right you thought was wrong

All of my life I have believed
Judgement of heaven is waiting for me
All of my life I have believed
Judgement of heaven
awaits for me
All of my life I have believed
Judgement of heaven
is waiting for me Is waiting for me ...

 

 

Blood On The World's Hands
(Harris)

Sometimes it makes me wonder
Sometimes it makes me question

Sometimes it makes me saddened

Always it makes me angry but ...

When you can see it happening

The madness that's all around you

Nobody seems to worry

The World seems to powerless to act ... It's out of control

Blood on the World's hands

Each day a new toll

Another assassination
The same day a new creation
But what are they coming into
Security of a world that brings ...
One day another killing
Somewhere there's someone starving
Another a savage raping
Meanwhile there's someone laughing at us It's out of control
Blood on the World's hands
Each day it goes on Brutality and aggression
Tomorrow another lesson
Expecting another air raid Praying for a cease-fire ...
They say things are getting better
No need to be complacent
There's chaos across the border
And one day it could be happening to us It's out of control
Blood on the World's hands It's our epitaph
It's out of control
Someone should know
Blood on the World's hands
Someone should

The Edge Of Darkness
(Harris/Bayley/Gers)

 I've looked into the heart of darkness
Where the blood-red journey ends

When you've faced the heart of darknes

s Even your soul begins to bend

For a week I have been waiting

Still I am only in Saigon

The walls move in a little closer

I feel the jungle call me on

Every minute I get weaker

While in the jungle they grow strong

What I wanted was a mission

And for my sins they gave me one

They brought it up just like room service

'Cause everyone gets what they want

And when that mission was all over

I'd never want another one I know, captain that you've done this work before

We've got a problem you can help us all I'm sure

The colonel's gone rouge

And his methods are unsound

You'll take PBR up river track him down

There's a conflict in every human heart

And the temptation is to take it all too far In this war things get so confused

But there are some things

Which cannot be excused

He's acting like a God - an insane lunatic Your mission - exterminate With extreme prejudice

The route is dangerous

And your progress may be slow

Here is the file and it's all you need to know

Here I am the knife in my hand

And now I understand why the genius must die

Now I stand alone in the darkness

With his blood upon my hands

Where sat the warrior the poet

Now lie the fragments of a man I've looked into the heart of darkness

Where the blood-red journey ends

When you've faced the heart of darkness

Even you soul begins to bend

 

2 A.M.
(Bayley/Gers/Harris)

I get in from work at 2 a.m. and sit down with a beer
Turn on late night TV. and then wonder why

I'm here It's meaningless and trivial and it washes over me

And once again I wonder is this all there is for me

Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again
On my own

Life seems so pathetic I wish I could leave it all behind
This canvas chair, this bed, these walls that fall in on my mind
Hold on for something better that just drags you through the dirt
Do you just let go or carry on and try to take the hurt

Here I am again
Look at me again
Here I am again
On my own
Trying hard to see
What there is for me
Here I am again
On my own

The Unbeliever (Harris/Gers)

 When you start to take a look within
Do you feel at ease with what you see
Do you think you can have peace of mind
And have self-belief be satisfied
Do you think you even like yourself
Or really think you could be someone else
Is there something that you'd rather be
Never thought you'd be, had the chance to see

All my life
I've run away
All my life I've tried to hide away

Feel the paranoia creeping in
Like a cancer eating at the skin
Do you feel you've lost your self
esteem And your self respect, what can you expect

All my life I've run away
All my life I've tried to hide away
All my life ... I've run astray Let my faith ... slip away
All my life ... I've run astray
Allowed my faith ... to drift away

Are you scared to look inside your mind
Are you worried just at what you'll find
Do you really want to face the truth
Does it matter now, what have you got to lose
Try release the anger from within
Forgive yourself a few immortal sins
Do you really care what people think
Are you strong enough to release the guilt

All my life I've run away
All my life I've tried to hide away
All my life ... I've run astray
Let my faith ... slip away
All my life ... I've run astray
Allowed my faith ... to drift away